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 | Gary Lum
Health Emergency Management and Biosecurity Branch, Office of Health Protection, Canberra, Australia | | | Faculty Member: MICROBIOLOGY > Medical microbiology [ since 24 August 2001 ] |
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Gary is currently the Assistant Secretary for the Health Emergency and Biosecurity Branch in the Office of Health Protection in the Australian Government's Department of Health and Ageing.
He gained his bench training at Queensland Medical Laboratory while studying medicine at the University of Queensland. After completing his medical degree he went on to train in Microbiology under the auspices of the Royal College of Pathologists of Australasia. Ironically, Gary started life as a serologist at QML but after two ASOT/DNAase run failures was transferred to bacteriology! Despite this early set back he then came under the supervision and tutelage of some of the Queensland members of the Serology QAP standing committee.
Gary has published work in areas involving tropical infectious diseases as well helping author a chapter in the latest Oxford Textbook of Surgery on skin infections. He has assisted in writing a sub-chapter on Burkholderia pseudomallei in the American Society for Microbiology's Manual of Clinical Microbiology (editions eight and nine).
While supervising pathology for Territory Health Services, he was a member of the National Pathology Accreditation Advisory Council and the RCPA's Pathology Professional Activities Committee. Gary is currently RCPA Vice President and Chair of the RCPA's Microbiology Advisory Committee.
Gary was a member of the Communicable Diseases Network of Australia, Quality Use of Pathology Committee, Medicare Australia's Doctors' Communication Group, NHMRC Expert Advisory Group on Antimicrobial Resistance, Pathology Service Table Committee's Microbiology Working Party, Australian Group on Antimicrobial Resistance, National Neisseria Network, and the ARCBS National Blood Transfusion Committee amongst many other national committees. Gary sits on the ASM's National Examination Board and the Microbiology Australia Editorial Board.
Separate from Pathology Gary was a member of the Medical Board of the Northern Territory.
Gary was also the current Chair of the Public Health Laboratory Network.
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